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July 1, 1974Communications of the ACM825 citationsOpen Access

The UNIX time-sharing system

DRDennis M. RitchieKTKen Thompson

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UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user, interactive operating system for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/40 and 11/45 computers. It offers a number of features seldom found even in larger operating systems, including: (1) a hierarchical file system incorporating demountable volumes; (2) compatible file, device, and inter-process I/O; (3) the ability to initiate asynchronous processes; (4) system command language selectable on a per-user basis; and (5) over 100 subsystems including a dozen languages. This paper discusses the nature and implementation of the file system and of the user command interface.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a089a9aab15ea61dee8f5b5https://doi.org/10.1145/361011.361061
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